When psychologists conduct a study, the group of participants chosen for the study is referred to as the subject. The subject could be a group of people or a single individual.
EXPLANATION:
When doing or conducting research, psychologist usually includes a group of participants of a single individual as the subject of the study or research. Psychologists usually make a list of requirements about the subject needed for the research. For example, if a psychologist wants to analyze the behavior of student age 17-19, a group of participants age 17-19 is chosen. Yet, if a psychologist wants to conduct research about adult behavior in the workplace, a group of workers will be chosen.
Psychologists also make research designs based on the study that they want to conduct. For example:
•Retrospective cohort study: where subjects are chosen first, then data are collected.
•Prospective cohort study: where subjects are recruited before the proposed effects are occurred or administrated.
•Cross-sectional study: where the subjects are taken from a population or sample on all proposed measures in time.
•Longitudinal study: subjects are chosen and studied at multiple time.
Psychologists also choose whether they want to conduct a qualitative or quantitative study. If they want to conduct a qualitative study, the results or findings are presented in sentences, not statistical or other mathematical methods. Yet, if they want to conduct a quantitative study, the findings or results will be in the form of mathematical modelling and statistical inference or statistical estimation.
LEARN MORE:
If you’re interested in learning more about this topic, we recommend you to also take a look at the following questions:
1.The approach to psychology views the mind as an active and aware problem-solving system. this view contrasts with the approach to psychology, which focuses on an organism's visible interactions with the environment
2.Neuroscience studies are based on the approaches to psychology
KEYWORDS: subject in psychology, a group of participants, subject,
Subject: Social Studies
Class: College
Sub-chapter: Psychology research
